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Nvidia Is Trying To Stop Crypto Miners Buying RTX 3000 Series Cards
19.5.2021
Earlier this year, Nvidia announced that their GeForce RTX 3060 graphics cards would ship with a “reduced Ethereum hash rate”, making them a lot less useful for crypto miners. They’re now extending that move to the RTX 3080, RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti as well.Read more
Fighting Game Glossary Demystifies All That Weird Jargon
19.5.2021
Getting into fighting games can be difficult. Not only do you need to learn the ins and outs of various games’ mechanics, but the jargon used by more experienced players can sometimes sound like a totally different language. That said, this huge barrier to entry just got a little easier thanks to...
Twitch Takes Away Biggest Hot Tub Streamer's Ability To Make Money Off Ads
18.5.2021
Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa is one of the most popular female streamers on Twitch. As of now, she can no longer make money off ads on her channel.Read more
Who Are The Best And Worst Resident Evil Heroes?
18.5.2021
It’s time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more
Ikumi Nakamura Sentenced To ‘Horny Jail’ For Lady Dimitrescu Tweets
18.5.2021
Like many who have gazed upon her visage, Resident Evil Village’s Lady Dimitrescu has captivated former GhostWire: Tokyo creative director Ikumi Nakamura. In sharing that info publicly, however, the energetic developer was sadly condemned to “horny jail”—never mind the fact she didn’t even know...
Hell Yeah! The Summer Games Done Quick 2021 Schedule Looks Amazing
18.5.2021
The Summer Games Done Quick 2021 schedule is now out, and I’m so excited. Taking place from July 4-11, the online speedrunner charity event will feature over 100 full-tilt sprints through games famous and obscure, with the proceeds raised going to Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans...
As Gaza Burns, Twitch Charity Streams For Palestine Remain Few And Far Between
18.5.2021
The situation in Gaza is dire. Israeli raids have killed over 200 Palestinians in the past week, at least 42 of them on Sunday alone. They’ve also destroyed more than 500 homes, leaving tens of thousands of Palestinians homeless—a stunningly bleak continuation of decades of apartheid...
GTA V Arrives On Xbox Series S/X And PlayStation 5 On November 11
18.5.2021
Today, Rockstar announced Grand Theft Auto V, a game with almost as many releases as Skyrim, will be arriving on current gen systems November 11.Read more
Here's Everything Coming To And Leaving Game Pass Soon
18.5.2021
The back half of May will see a whole bunch of additions to the Game Pass library, anchored by Knockout City. I have lost many, many games of dodgeball IRL, so I’m looking forward to continuing that trend in an interesting-looking game that may or may not fizzle out immediately. Always impossible...
This Mai Shiranui Statue Is Only $1,000
18.5.2021
No Mai, no buy, right? The iconic King of Fighters character is getting a 1/4-scale, 1.7-foot-tall statue from PJ Studio.Read more
Chuck, No, This Is Mario Golf
18.5.2021
Nintendo recently updated the official Mario Golf: Super Rush website with short clips of every golfer performing their Special Shot. None of these powerful moves, however, are more special than Chargin’ Chuck’s.Read more
Valorant Pro Jay “Sinatraa” Won Suspended For Six Months Following Sexual Assault Investigation
17.5.2021
Jay “Sinatraa” Won has been suspended from competing in professional Valorant matches for six months following Riot’s investigation of claims he sexually assaulted his girlfriend Cleo Hernandez. Announced today, the six month suspension will last until September 10 and require Won to participate...
BioWare Sounds Open To Restoring Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer In Legendary Edition
17.5.2021
When it was announced last year that the original Mass Effect trilogy would get a proper remaster, it was mostly good news. However, EA and BioWare sadly explained that the new release would omit Mass Effect 3’s co-op multiplayer mode. Now, Legendary Edition’s project director, Mac Walters, says...
Guilty Gear Voice Actor Steps Down To Make Room For Black Women
17.5.2021
Erin Fitzgerald, the prolific voice actor who played Ramlethal Valentine in the Guilty Gear Xrd games, won’t be returning in the upcoming Guilty Gear Strive after stepping down to “support more work for Black actresses behind the mic.”Read more
Resident Evil Village Is Proving A Great Intro To The Series, Even When It Makes Me Sick
17.5.2021
Until Village, I had never played a Resident Evil game in my life because I am a gigantic baby who is ridiculously easy to scare. But I knew as soon as I saw that tall, glamorous, vampire woman that I’d steel my courage and give the venerable horror franchise a try, if only for her. Read more
Mario Golf: Super Rush's Speed Golf Mode Looks Like A Trip
17.5.2021
Golf is normally a game about being patient and waiting your turn while wearing awesome pants. In Speed Golf, a new mode coming in next month’s Mario Golf: Super Rush, four players tee off at once and then race across the course to complete the hole first. I’d pay to watch real golfers do that.Read...
Twitch Begins Adjusting Sub Prices Based On Where Viewers Live
17.5.2021
While the USD 4.99 per month cost of a Tier 1 Twitch subscription works fine here in the States, five bucks can be a much larger hit on one’s wallet in other countries. Starting this week with Mexico and Turkey, Twitch will begin adjusting subscription costs to better align with the local cost...
Roblox Is Now Hilariously Pretending It Is Not A 'Game'
17.5.2021
Roblox is a game, right? It ticks all the boxes, it’s obvious, we all know it is. So why, I wonder, has one of the world’s most popular, uh, entertainment service platforms suddenly stopped calling itself one?Read more
New Mass Effect Changes Tali's Face
17.5.2021
It wasn’t the biggest of Mass Effect 3's missteps, so you’d be forgiven for having forgotten all about it, but BioWare’s trilogy did us all dirty when it spent 2.9 games building up the mystery of what Tali the Quarian looked like only to reveal...she looked like stock art of a sexy human...
The Week In Games: Days Gone Rides Onto The PC
16.5.2021
Watch out! Not-zombies are running from off the PS4 to attack some local bikers in Days Gone, which releases on PC later this week.Read more